Extensible shawl-strap bar.



PATBNTED JUNE 5, 1906.

J. CONNBTT. vEIXTENSIBLE SHAWL STRAPBAR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.14, 1905.

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handle and the end portions provided with tubular in form and is preferably `rectangu- .lar in-cross-section, as most clear-ly shown in onifonthe purpose of engraving the name and .vention. Fig. 2 is a top view showing the .tail perspective view of one of the end porr.made of any suitable material and any desired. `the usual or any approved manner, and this -UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIGE. JOHN CONNETT, Or SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.

I EXTENSIBLE SHAINL-STRAP BAH.

No. 822,349 Specication of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 14, 1905. Serial No. 274.153.

Patented June 5, 1906.

T0 @ZZ whoml it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN CONNETT, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and av resident of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Extensible Shawl- Strap Bars, of which the following is a specification.

This-invention relates generally to shawlstraps, and more particularly to the bars carrying theA straps, the object being to provide a shawl-strap bar of such construction that it can be extended or contracted in length to correspond with the len th of the bundle or package to which it shalIbe applied; and another object of the invention is to rovide a shawl-strap bar embodyin these character istics which shall be simpIe in construction and operation and stron and durable and not liable to get out of or er.

With these objects in view my invention consists, broadl in the employment of a central tubular member carrying adjustable end portions, said central and end portions carryingloops, throughwhich the straps pass, the central portion being also providedwith a address. A loop B is arran ed upon the top of the section A and throug which the central strap is adapted to be passed.

Sliding in the central Section A are the end sections or bars C, preferably made of steel and provided with shoulders C', adjacent their outer ends, which contact with the ends of the central section A and limit the inward movement of the said bars C. The inner ends of the bars C are provided with hooks D, which slide in the slot E, produced in the bottom of the tubular section A, as most clearly shown in Fig. 4, said hooks serving to limit the outward movement of the bars C, and they also tend to prevent any vertical movement of the bars within the central tubular member. Each bar C carries a loop F upon its upper side, adjacent the end thereof, and through which the end straps are adapted to pass, and the ends ofthe tubular section. A are slotted, as shown at F/, in order to receive said loops when the shawl-strap bar is arranged in contracted form, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5.

For a short bundle the shawl-strap bar is used in its contracted form; but for a long bundle the bars C are pulled out, and it is obvious that they canjbe pulled out to their full extent or only part of the' said full extent, according to the length or the character of the bundle or package to be carried.

From the fore oingdescription, taken in connection with t e accompanying drawings, it will be seen that I provide an exceedingl simple, durable, and efficient form of shaw strap bar by means of which large or small b uiiidles or packages can be conveniently carrie Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

means to prevent their dislocation.

The invention consists also in certain features of construction, hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this secication, Figure l is a perspective view s owing the practical application' of my inshawl-strap bar closed. Fig. 3 'is a similar view showing the shawl-strap bar extended. Fig. 4 is an inverted bottom plan view. Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section of the bar in contracted form. Fig. 6 is a similar view in extended form. Fig. 7 is a transverse sec# tion on the line 7 7 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a detions or extension-slides.

In the practical embodiment of my inventionfI employa central section A, which is ing a central section longitudinali slotted end sections adapted to slide upon t 'e central end sections engaging the slot of the central section, and limiting movement of the end sections with respect to the central section.

2. A shawl-strap bar comprising a central tubular section having a handle and a central strap-loop, solid end sections sliding in the central section and each provided with a strap-loop adjacent their outer ends, the ii;- ner end of each of the end sections having a 7, and this central section A maybe size A handle A is connected thereto in handle may be provided with a name-and-address plate, or a blank space may be lef-t there- 1. A device ofthe kind described 'comprissection, and depending means carried by the IOO depending hook adapted to slide in a vSlot Cent their outer ends, the-strap-loops carried produced in the bottom of the centralv seeby said end sections adjacent their outer ends tion, as set forth. u and the depending hooks arranged at the in- 3. A svhawl-strap bar comprising a central ner ends of the end sections and adapted to 5 tubular portion rectangular in cross-section i slide in a longitudinal slot in the bottom of t5 and provided with a handle, said central secthe central section, as set forth. tion havin@ a central strap-l0op,`the ends of 4 JOHN CONNETT. said centra section being slotted and the bot- 'Witnesses1 tom of said section having a longitudinal slot, CHAS. E. BROOK, fo the solid end sections having shoulders adjai E. B. l\IeBATH. 

